What kinds of items do you think men carried in their "coin purses" back late 1800 and ear
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How much money would the average person take out on the town etc.? What other items?-----------------BigE
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Gold coins (mostly the smaller ones) were sometimes given as gifts for special occasions.
This site:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873707.html link
lists some food prices from 1890:
16 cents for a 10 pound sack of potatoes
20 cents for a dozen eggs
12 cents for one pound of steak
That will give an idea. For those that pine for the "good old days" of 1890, keep in mind that many worked six days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day and the average life expectancy for working class folks was about 45 years.
Most middle or upper class people had accounts with their usual merchants - grocer, haberdasher, etc. - which they settled monthly or quarterly. Most country people (who were usually "cash poor" in any event) had an account at their local general store, which they paid on when they could, either in cash or trade.
Normally, people in cities or large towns would only use cash in many of the places we use cash today - to buy lunch or a beer or a newspaper or in a poker game or for a prostitute. Also, checks were in common use from about the last third of the 19th century onwards.
On the other hand, if you were travelling, you'd need to bring cash with you, unless you were going, say, to Europe (where you would need a lot of money), when you would use a letter of credit.
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<< <i> For those that pine for the "good old days" of 1890, keep in mind that many worked six days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day and the average life expectancy for working class folks was about 45 years. >>
I've said that before about people wishing the "good ol days" were now. Hey, if you want to live in a home that has no AC, join the workforce at age 12 and work 10-12 hr days for pennies, and crap in a hole in a wasp infested 3'x3' shed in the backyard then by golly, do it! LOL
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....just wish for SOME of the old days, like when you could leave your doors unlocked and when you could trust
the government and...................................................................................................
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Then the beers and whiskey would fill the glasses and the game would be on. Poker ... It's what's for dinner back in them days.
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<< <i>You know I'd be swaggerin' through the Saloon doors about now. A couple ten dollar gold pieces, four or five $20 Libs, twenty gold dollars and maybe a shiney new Morgan Dollar for the bar-maid all dressed in her frill. Another couple pieces of silver to tip the piano player.
Then the beers and whiskey would fill the glasses and the game would be on. Poker ... It's what's for dinner back in them days.
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I think the types that were wealthy enough to carry around that type of money didn't frequent saloons and the ones that did were outlaws.
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a good way to defend a gentleman against the evils a lady of the evening could give you.
No doubt men carried them, for protection.
I wonder if the suppliers of this type of protection had a product line as wide and varied as those of today. You know, a selection of sizes, colors, surface designs [bumps, rills, troughs, etc.] and image provoking names.
<< <i>....just wish for SOME of the old days, like when you could leave your doors unlocked and when you could trust
the government and >>
I have heard about these 'good old days' before, but feel that they are over rated.
My doors are never locked (but then I am very secluded).
As far as trust in the government goes; thanks to news media coverage of what these crooks are doing on a day to day basis, we are less naive than our forefathers; that is the real difference.
Sheep intestine? The very thought of it sends chills through me.
<< <i> unless you were going, say, to Europe (where you would need a lot of money), when you would use a letter of credit. >>
Interesting. Where can I find out more about this?
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Of course, I also remember old Joe Sider and his horsedrawn wagon going up and down the alleys picking trash, the old man who ran hounds and the Model A he had which had a dog pen built into the ex-rumble seat area, twice daily mail delivery, the grocer who DELIVERED, the egg lady, the milkman and so many other things that seem now to be echoes of the ninteenth century that were still with us into the sixties.
Once the decade came..............our world changed forever.
Then on Saturday nights he could make 3 or 4 whole dollars playing for a local dance. He still had a change purse in the 1950's.
The trick is, to somehow identify now, what you will look back upon when you are thinking about your good old days and learn to appriciate them now and as they are forever being upgraded.
For example, think: 8 Track that became records that became CDs that became DVDs that are now Blue Ray.... Someday we will look back and chuckle about how we did it back in the days and the Blue Ray will seem as old as the 8 Track.
Just my two pfennings worth,
Ray
The sound of the fresh fruit and vegetable truck caller as they drove down our street in the 60's.
He told me at night, they would lay down on the wooden walkway bridge going out to the cemetery, lower a lantern down to the water line and wait for a walleye pike to swim by. He said they had a nail in the hand rail where they could hang the spear off on a small loop of cord. In that way, they could patiently wait for the spawning fish to pass, unhook the loop and drop the spear with out spooking the target.
All they had was a wagon to keep the fish in and they would have to wait for daylight at the rear of the market for it to open. The butcher would pay them a penny a pound and on a good night he said they could make as much as .25 cents.
The spawn only lasted a few weeks, the gar fish they speared went home to be pickled, the walleyes went to the market. The money they collected went into a sugar bowl to buy, well sugar, flour and other essentials that could not be made or traded for.
In the sugar bowl, I can imagine there being Indian Head cents, Shield and Liberty Head nickels, Seated Lib dimes and maybe even a III cent nickel or two.
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I hated coins jingling in my pocket and having to dig for change too. So all my change went in there of course. And I carried a pocket piece, and whatever small stuff you come along through the course of the day, tickets and such went in there too.
Always handy to have change over there, cigarettes were sold in vending machines on the street (though not anymore). Before the conversion to euro you had 1, 2 and 5 DM coins - a pack of smokes in 2001 was 6DM, so you'd need a 5 and 1 DM coin. Back then getting a 5 DM banknote was like getting a $2 bill here.. the coins were much more common.
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<< <i>For those that pine for the "good old days" of 1890, keep in mind that many worked six days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day and the average life expectancy for working class folks was about 45 years. >>
And if it weren't for all those socialist unions and government entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, we'd still be there today.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>sheep intestine
a good way to defend a gentleman against the evils a lady of the evening could give you. >>
They still make 'em too (actually now they make them from lambskin) -- they'll protect against pregnancy and some STDs but not against HIV, hence their drop in popularity in recent years.
Actually they don't protect all that well against pregnancy, as my youngest brother's existence can attest to.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
When I bought it, it was filled with $2.5 indians and 5 libs.
When I bought it, it was filled with $2.5 indians and 5 libs.
As I recall records preceded 8 track tapes, and there are still audiophiles who feel analog records provide a better truer sound than digital media. You also left out MP3s which are the latest generation but lowest quality (go figure).
<< <i>Cool pouch topstuff, cant wait to see how those silver coins tone in it. -------------------BigE >>
Them's sovereigns. I couldn't debase my pouch.